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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Tuesday that people are now able to get a infectious-disease infectious-disease booster shot five months after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, shortening the waiting period by one month for those ages 12 and up.  The interval recommendation …

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Monday that the interval between a second dose of Moderna’s infectious-disease infectious-disease remains six months.  “Right now if you got J&J, you get a booster after two months. If you got Pfizer as your primary series, you can get a booster at five …

More than 1 million people in the U.S. were diagnosed with infectious-disease on Monday.  According to data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, 1,082,549 cases were tallied, a “record high.”  PHYSICIAN WRITES THAT  COVID-19 TESTS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM MOST Since the start of the …

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby (eventually) in the baby carriage, thanks to infectious-disease. reproductive-health women who are looking forward to their dream nursery may be waiting a while, according to a recent New York Times report.  File photo of a pregnant woman.  (iStock) Despite a …

Hospitals in houston-and-galveston” target=”_blank”>Houston<.  The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) told Fox News on Saturday that its four-hospital network is “using sotrovimab with the patients who need it most and are waiting on the next shipment.” OMICRON: PFIZER SAYS COVID PILL APPEARS EFFECTIVE AGAINST VARIANT The Houston Chronicle reported …

Recent studies suggest that the infectious-disease may be less severe than delta because it impacts the lungs in different ways.  In a recent executive, White House chief medical adviser anthony-fauci” target=”_blank”>Dr. Anthony Fauci< “Hamster models from the University of Tokyo show that omicron poorly infects and spreads in the lung, …

States across the country are setting records for new infectious-disease ahead of the new year.  As the omicron and delta variants continue to spread, the us-regions Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) reported its highest one-day number of cases. WHO CHIEF WORRIED ABOUT ‘TSUNAMI’ OF OMICRON, DELTA COVID CASES …

world-health-organization” target=”_blank”>World Health Organization (WHO)< creating a “tsunami of cases.”  “I’m highly concerned that omicron, being more transmissible [and] circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases,” he said at an online news conference.  WHO CHIEF WORRIED ABOUT ‘TSUNAMI’ OF OMICRON, DELTA COVID CASES …

occasions celebrations across the world have been modified – or canceled – as the infectious-disease continues to run rampant.  Officials in the world-regions have warned partygoers in Scotland and Wales to avoid traveling to England to ring in 2022 – though no formal travela> ban is in place.< One in …

Increased electronic screen time was associated with worse mental-health” target=”_blank”>mental health<.  The researchers conducted a longitudinal cohort study between May 2020 and April 2021 among 2026 Canadian children between the ages of two to 18 years old, measuring primary outcomes with mental-health and anxiety and secondary outcomes with conduct problems, …